How To Use Famished In A Sentence
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He beat at them continually with his whip, but they were so famished that they took no notice whatever.
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Famished for power and perks, they pour out of the law schools and the centers for the study of this and that to cop the boodle when their side wins.
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Hammam, sent thither for each of them a suit of apparel such as befitted a merchant worth a thousand. 494 When they had washed and donned each his suit, I carried them to my house where, seeing them well nigh famished, I set a tray of food before them and ate with them, caressing them and comforting them.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They, the tired and famished ones, bring with them their stock-in-trade, their cigar fuzees, their boot blackers and shiners, and their humble single brushes with which to ‘brush you down, sir,’ for a penny.
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Jacob and his brother Esau were pretty tight-knit, until one day Esau returns from a long trip, famished.
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Starving men may think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the famished, like titillations.
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And into my face I strove to throw all the wan wistfulness of famished and ingenuous youth of mendicancy.
Confession
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Trivedy said 5000 famished people had congregated next to a church in the coastal town of Nova Mambone.
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The famished old folk could only swallow their tears.
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Ashton while we do this go into the kitchen and eat something, you look famished.
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We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop.
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I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, -- you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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Next were victual brought unto her of broth and venison, and good wine and cates and strawberries; and she was not so famished but she might eat and drink with a good will.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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She had to admit she was quite hungry, famished even.
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Ill tell thee what, thou thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished correctioner! if you be not swinged, Ill forswear half-kirtles.
Act V. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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They're sleep deprived, dehydrated, exhausted, and famished.
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I mean you wouldn't say, God I'm famished, I could murder a fruit juice.
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There are any number of French restaurateurs who will give "famished" Americans exactly what they're used to -- after all, a euro is a euro is a euro.
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A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
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I have offered the leavings of a meal to a savage just after he had apparently gorged himself and he "wolfed" it as if he were famished.
An African Adventure
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‘The last of us finally got home at 8am, but only because we were famished - and couldn't find a cafe open to cook us breakfast,’ said coach Andy Geary.
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Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination.
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He was lying face down and looked famished and exhausted.
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By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famished.
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I saw many originally low, and to whom lack of education left scarcely anything but animal wants, disappointed in those wants, ahungered, athirst, and desperate as famished animals: I saw what taught my brain a new lesson, and filled my breast with fresh feelings.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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We were out of breath, underdressed (no coats either) and famished, with at least two hours to kill before our key-bearing neighbours would be home.
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And some of them arrived in very bad states of malnutrition, also [suffering from] skin diseases and very, very famished and exhausted.
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But even a day later, she is not so well - she is famished, utterly exhausted physically and emotionally.
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Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses.
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We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop.
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Food riots broke out, and as unemployment reached 40 percent, famished angry people wandered the streets.
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Burning off fat rather than energy stored in muscles also means you are less likely to feel famished after an exercise session and order that self-defeating portion of fries at the health club restaurant.
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The luluing of the famished myall mingled with the howl of the hunting dingo.
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He is so hungry, so thirsty, so famished without me, she thinks.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Sacrifices always lessened his appetite, but he had not eaten since morning, and he was considerably famished.
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I was still wondering what famished them, since the reason for their leanness, and their skin's sad scurf, was not obvious yet.
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Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
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He went to the bog in the morning on his breakfast of dry stirabout, with a bit of cold stirabout in his pocket to keep off the hungry grass, as the peasant calls famished pains, and walked home to his dry stirabout at night, having walked going and coming eleven Irish miles over and above his day's work.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition; and he was raised so high above the mass of his fellow creatures that their distresses excited in him only a languid pity, such as that with which we regard the sufferings of the inferior animals, of a famished redbreast or of an overdriven posthorse.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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Anyways, I got to go because my mother said dinner is done and I have to eat something because I'm famished.
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I was famished by the time we came to the canteen and, for once, the whole group was assembled there - - only, they sat at separate tables.
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I wolfed it, famished, while cats scratched at gaps in the floorboards and invisible mice.
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He had been too sorrowful earlier to notice but now that Bryan mentioned it, he was famished, he hadn't eaten all day.
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The rope dug into her flesh, her stomach, causing her to become further aware of how famished she was.
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they were tired and famished for food and sleep
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I'm not joking, but I could not work out how†"until eventually I stumbled upon my inventory (I'm not even sure how) and finally made him reach the state of" famished "rather than starving.
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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Oh well, I'm famished and a good meal is what I need.
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Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
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It was evident that when the goblin girl said "famished" she meant very hungry indeed.
Dragon on a Pedestal
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By the time Edward returned with a tray of beer-cans the fire was blazing with famished enthusiasm.
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She gave them coffee, krout, and potato pickles, which are never eaten but by famished men, and for once they were a luxury.
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
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One peer at least tied a capon in his handkerchief and tossed it up to his famished family.
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I pushed my famished, ravaged body onwards.
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There are any number of French restaurateurs who will give "famished" Americans exactly what they're used to - after all, a euro is a euro is a euro.
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His contraption, patented in 1979, catches birds, which fly into a little house with a false floor attached to a downspout and dispenses them uninjured to a cage below, where famished felines move in for the kill.
The Kookiest Inventions
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The sky was a kind of famished blue, insufficiently dressed with a few stretches of muslin clouds.
Archive 2007-11-01
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A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
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Since we were all famished and couldn't wait to get to a restaurant, the rest of us stayed in the van while Ramon went inside to get his brother.
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I've had nothing since supper at about 19.00 hours last night except a cup of coffee, and I'm famished.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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But when you're famished in subzero temperatures, you're likely to consume it before it's fully rehydrated - making it harder to digest.
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In both cases, you probably become famished and are more likely to make poor food choices and overindulge, says Walls.
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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Mr. Stross explained that Google's goal is to feed information to the company's servers like they are some kind of famished beasts: "It has reached out to claim as many books as it can get hold of, as many videos as its users would like to submit, as many different kinds of maps as can be overlaid upon the earth and the sky, and as many of the documents that computer users routinely create for home, office, and school.
Home | The New York Observer
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The Roman soldiers waited year after year until they knew that the people were famished and then they rushed in and slaughtered them by the thousands.
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I was absolutely famished but could not manage more than a third of the serving.
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One day Esau returns from the countryside, exhausted and famished, to find his brother Jacob cooking a stew.
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Anyway, your tea is very pleasant - although I do find that it makes me utterly famished; if I'm dunking I need an entire pack of digestives.
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Many famished in the countryside during the drought
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I'm famished too and was just waiting on you slowpokes.
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Speaking of being hungry for Greek, get me to the nearest falafel stand - I'm famished!
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Nay, the latter are the more harmless wild beasts; for they only cranch a poor traveller now and then, and when they are famished with hunger: the others, though they have dined, cut the throats of some hundreds of poor
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Frightened, the boy ran; but famished as he was, he did not run far and lingered next to a shop where the apples were still in sight.
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Indeed, like Icky Vicky, the Evoque has a kind of sawed-off, famished look.
Range Rover: Still King of the Hill
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It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
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The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge.
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Boy, I'm famished… can we stop at a café and eat before we meet up with Tamika?
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What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
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‘Soup and bouilli will do,’ replied the halffamished prisoner; ‘but let us have a large piece of beef, a gallon of soup, and ten pounds of bread, with beer in proportion.’
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The first few minutes were spent concentrating on the food, for the women were famished.
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Jordan said: ‘It looked famished and was a bit unsteady on its feet.’
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He looks famished and dishevelled and in no way gainfully employed.
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Their experience finds a compelling representative in Leymah Gbowee, who recalled her famished
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She'd had no sleep the night before and she was famished.
